At SCSF, I brought 26 original ca. 1630 painted prints from Girard Thibault's treatise to display alongside Brian Stokes' first edition (on the red velvet throne to the right).
After four months of tweaking and poking and rewriting and reconsidering, I've completed another revision of my Zettel translation.
It's starting to sound pretty good now.
I've also expanded the footnotes in a lot of places, including adding more variant readings and more terminology discussion.
Holy crap, this one is beautiful.
I paid out the nose for this one, but I now have every painted Thibault print I can locate for sale, apart from a few that I passed by because they're duplicates and not better than what I have. Now we can plan the scanning.
We now have 30 Thibault prints to digitize for Wiktenauer!
If you or someone you know owns a painted Thibault page, HEMA Bookshelf has offered to pay for shipping to Massachusetts and back to get it digitized with the rest (and also provide advice about how to package it so that it travels safely).
I wrote this little eulogy for Mike on my Wiktenauer account a few days ago. Hope to see and reminisce with a lot of you at the memorial service this weekend.
The most up-to-date version of the translation can always be found on Wiktenauer, but that link is where the most recent PDF extract lives.
Are you ready to buy the biggest book you've ever seen?
This project has 2 goals:
1. To publish Thibaultβs illustrations in as close to their original size as possible β to do this, we need πππ π₯π§π-π€π§πππ§π¨.
2. To fund the digitization of complete, painted illustrations to release on Wiktenauer.
A Meyer coloring book! This book includes all 62 prints from Joachim Meyer's 1570 treatise. We took Hans Christoff Stimmer's woodblocks, cleaned them up, and printed them at 150% of their original size. Whether you want to color them or simply appreciate their details in B&W, this book is for you!